by Ted Davis
Directed by: Norman Foster
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: Bland and ordinary Howard Graham (Joseph Cotten), a competent and reliable armament engineer who is on a job to support the Allied cause during WWII, is pushed out of his comfort zone when threatened with murder by Axis zealots, and is forced to summon previously unused reserves of courage and anger if he wants to survive the ordeal. Orson Welles as the manipulative and overbearing Colonel Haki and Dolores del Rio as exotic dancer Josette Martel are on hand to add some color to the quaint proceedings.
Purr Blur: A black cat on a foreground table is deeply unconcerned when Graham bursts into a room to escape his bad-intentioned pursuers, and continues his self-cleaning operations without pause. While the cat is in the forefront of the scene the darkness and the action of Cotten makes him or her easy to overlook.
Final Mewsings: The cat wasn’t the only one bored by Graham.
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